The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1871, Page 10

8 2 o-oo) eas Poa es w ne 13 we aoe SSerar wwe at em raRre re rVY PRE awe 19 THE TWO COMMODORES, The Five Million Fisk-Van- derbilt Suit. Phe War of the Railroad Titans—Vanderbilt, the Man of Bronze, Gets the Better of Fisk, the Adipose—Daniel Drew the Last Witness and Futile Attempt to Draw Him Cut— Dismissal of the Complaint by Judge Baroard and Why Dismissed. ‘The famous sult Drought by the Erie Railway Com- pany, or rather by Fisk & Gould, its managers, against Commodore Vanderbilt, was yesterday Drought to & conclusion by dismissal of the com- plaint by Judge Barnard, of the Supreme Court. ‘Tne Suit, as will be remembered, was originally brought to recover $5,000,000 and was Known in the courts as the “five milhen dollar suit against Vanderbilt.” ‘Messrs. Gould & Fisk sought to cancel a transaction alleged to have been effected by the ofticers of ane Toad on ne behalf by the Commo- adore, by which tre latter, om duly, ‘1868, trausferred to the latter Jifty thousand shares of capital stock purporting to have been dxsued by the read, and gave to Messrs, brisk & Gould and otuers what is known in the vocadalary Of stock transactions as “call” to 50,000 additional shares, an censideration of $3,500,000 cash, Grow. ing out of other stock trangacttons a further chum of $1,500,000 was preferred against te Commodore and a suit brought to compel payment of such alleged gross indemedness. through all the familiar ‘The Commodore shewed fight. would. not back =~ down, deepened and became more complicated, and then, under the growing development of facts, $3,500,000 claim was thrown overbosrd and every energy concentrated by Fisk & Gould to efect a compromise. Fisk & Gould gave their evidence. Tue Commodore gave his, and the long drawn out evidence and longer drawn out talk of details of the suit. Pisk & Gould The combat the opposing counsels filled, from ume to time, | columns of the newspapers, final As stated above the WINDING UP OF THE CASE eccurred = yesterd: All the chambers of the Supreme Court betag ocenpied thts final hearing and wind up took place im the chamber of the Board of Supervisors, Of the imme- diatly interested = itigants) Mr. Gould oniy put in an appearance. The opposing counsel, of course, were promptly in attendance—Mr. David Dudiey Field vo deiend the legal rights and interests of the Bye Railway Company, and Mr. Wilham A, Beach and ex-dudge Noah Dayis to see to it that no advantage, legal or iWegal, be taken of the great railway King. As usual in all these suits there was a large crowd of spectators, The crier calling out the usual fatory rigmar which migat be Hebrew or userit, as far as its intellignbility to those present is concerned, the Judye commenced whittling mpona stick m pursuauce ot his usual custom, and then followed OPENING OF THE PROCREDINGS. Mr. Reach began by reading those portiens of the | It is wmnecessary to go | { deposition of Commodore Vanderbvut which bad not | been read by Mr. Field as evidence on his part. ‘Tms concluded he recalied Mr, Daniel Drew. The old gentleman took bis place prompUy on the stand With @ quiet, easy indifference and answered the questions put to him, DANIEL DREW'S TESTIMONY. Q. You were at the seiiiement at M house spoken of by Mr. Gould ana Mr. evidence? A. Y Q. You had had in New Jersey bonds or the pro- ceeds of bonds belonging to the Erie Railway Com- pany ip your p ‘A. Bonds. Q. Bonds or uy A. Oh, yes, sir; J had many securities. Q. Did you, in that interview ai Mr. Pierpont’s, tell Mr. Gould or Mr, Fisk, that that money or any portion of that money, or of any bonds which you might convert into money, you Were goiug to give to Commodore Vanderbilt? Mr. Piela objected io the question as leading, and At was putin auother form. Q. Did you deliver auy money pelongimy to the Erie Ratiway Company into the hands of Commodore Vanderbilt A. Never. _Q. Did you propose at any ume to do so? Never. Q. Ind you say at any time tuat you Intended to do gor A. Never, Q. At the interview at Mr. Pierpont’s house, did Mr. Fisk ask You What wus the nature of that inter- view, and did you reply tuat you were arranging the Jaw suite: and did he ask you What under beaven you were arranging tiem for, or auything like this ia substance or eect? Mr. Field ob,ected to this question because it em- braced three questions. The Judge suggested that the witness might answer the separate questions in DiS own Way. The questions were divide Q. On that oceasion did Mr. Fisk ask you in sub- stance or effect what under heaven you Was arrang- ing those suits for? A. No, sir: 1 don’t remember he did: i don't think he did. Q. Did he upon that occasion tell you in words or substance taat there were members m the board that strongly objected to any settlement? A, Fdon't recollect that he aid. Q. Did you at that time tell him that yon had been taiking with the Commodore, but did’ not seem to arrive at any satisfactory resolutions. made two or three trades, or anything to that eif A. No, sir; I don’t remember any such ton. Q. Did you tell him at that time that they—that you and those provosing a settlement—ad got a majority of the board and would carry it turouga tne board’ A. No, sir. Q. Did Mr. Fisk upon that occasion you that be bad been Oghting uns settlement for six or seven months ,or anytiing w that effect? A. No, sir; L don't think Be dtd. Q. Did be tely you this, or in substance this :— “You know that for nive weeks while [ was in Jer- wey that PsearcHy took off my clothes to keep this money from being stolen, aiid I could not see any reason Why We sould not fight that position tl sane there ws We fought in Jersey, tbat we Jought against ail of them io prevent this money froin being taken out in any shape or manner?” Mr. Field onject the question as leading. Mr. Beactt said he would shorten it, q Did you upon that occasion come to Mr. Fisk ‘With tears m your eyes und ask hin if Le would cc tent to a settiement? A. Oh, no, Q Mr, Fisk states that upon nal oceasion you came to him, and be speaks thus In regard to you ne old gentieman was a little wea on to tell What ne suffered during his pilgrimage tu New Jersey.” Did any such thing happen dir. Fick objected, Dut question Was allowed. A No, sir; 1 dow think there Was any sucn talk at ail. Cross-examined by Mr. Field—Q. What did you go & Mr. Pierp ont’s nouse for? A. 1 had a notice to meet there from the President, Mr. Hidridge: J did not Know when t went there What tue meeting Was for; 1 did not know iv was for a settlement. 4. Had you no idea what it was for? A. Well, brnk we a note \ meet nim Lucre, and after 1 got ther Q. No, before you got there, had you any idea What it wasfory A. sir; Loan t say teat | had; 1 had uo idea what it was for, only to meet Mr. Eidnage aud some of the ouer peuple there. Q. Who were people you were to meet? A. Soine of we direc Q Wot A. i suppose all the directors were noted. Q. Do You suppose all of them were notified? a. I Suppose Wey were. 4. Who did you suppose were not notified ? A. I did not KnOW bul ‘hey were ail notified: 1 did not Anow anyliing about { until J got there, q. When you gor there whom did you find’ A. 1 Uuok Thompson and kidridge were there; I know Mr. Fisk and Mr. Gould got there some little time aller We got there. Q. | aim not asking you that. Pierpont’s ‘isk im their way Company? A. A. You asked me Who was there. Qa did not; Jasked whom you found there? A. Well, | found Mr. Eldridge iners and Mr. Taomp- won wheu T got there, I tiiuk; it 18 80 long ago I con't remember a!) of them. ¥. Do you remember anybody else but Thempson and Eldridge? A. J remember every one Was there; aud Mr. Fisk came there, Q. When you gottneie’ A. \Y. Do you remember anyb« when you got there, excepling those two persons: A. declare I don't remember; there were otuers there, 1 thunk; pere imust have been. Q. But you don’t remember one of ‘hem’ i don’t now. Q. Do you remember what auybody sai mecting before Gould and Fisk tur A. 1 re- member that Mr. Held a proposition to make seitiement of this whole matter, other law ite and wll this, w )W, You remember tnat? A. ©, sir, Yes. Q A. fat J dop't remember: he read it from @ paper; I don’t remember whetlier know he Stated the wiiount, and 1 know | objected to it and stated | | would pot agree to any such Untug. Q. Any such amount for a settiementy raid | Would not. Q. You said you wenid not? A. Yes. q. What atoount did be state he had agreed upon? A. that i don't remember now. \. drun't yeu know how iat several hundred Ulousand voi suits, & To whom was the several hundred thousand dollar © be paid, did be say’ A. I thiuk Mr. Sone! ‘war to recenve n certain ainonnt. @ Woe any lo de pass tv avy otber person Map A. No; 1 it was wil the aor rs’ A. bo setuie that you had | he | A. No; | | Q. Where was thai, in one of your interviews | charged therein. | of the def | hands. | respouded Mr. Fiela. | nignant glow to the countenance of Mr Fieid aid | hasty jerks, he thrust his bundle of law papers | ie fea It frou a paper OF state it verbeiys | HO owe could teil wnether through # trap door or | Mr. Schell? A. Yes, the receiver; J think he was Lo receive 80 8nd 80, Q. Anybody else? A. lcan’t remember; I know the amount was very large, Q. That 18 enough, that you don’t remember tell- ing him, and Lam content; you said you would Let agree to any such thing? A. 1 did at Orst, 9. Did you finally agree to ity A. Wel, I told Mr. Fldrtage ‘that if the divectors wonld all agree to it, or a majoriy of them, [ suppose I would have to | do It Q. Which did you say, that if the directors would agree to Ht, allor them or a majority of them, cause you Lave used both expressions? Which did | yousay' A. Laon’t know. | «Q You con't Know whether you said you would | do Wif they wonid all agree or whether you sal you would dottif a majority of them would agree? A. 1 don’t remember, How long had you been together before Gould and Fisk came In there’ A, Perbaps it Was ball an hour before they caine im after I got there, | Q When you got there you fund the other gen- tlemen there? A. Yes. Q. Were Gould and Fisk expected there that even- ing? A. That 1 don’t know; | did not know that Uhey were until they came. Q. You had nogntimation that they were expected ? | A. [had not beard trom Mr, Eldrhige. Q. When they came in what was the first thing they sald? A. 1 don’t remember. Q. Do you kuow whicn one of them spoke frst . No: Faon’t remeber, Q. The one that did speak—did not be say, “What ) are you doing heres’ A. J don’s remeouber, i Q. Will you say that that was not exactly the lan- i guage used? A. I don’t remember. | Q. Do you remember euough about tt to say that was notity A. I aout remember they said any sach ‘Uhing. Oy Do you remember anything Gould and Fisk or either of tiem sald in Mat interview ¥ 1 dou't | know thas I 40 6a8cys 1 know that Mr. Eldridge | p a paper, they all sizned Waix paper—the | ligectors Inut were there, Q. Ldou’t ask you about the paper got u) ask you lf you remember anytiing Wat Visk or either of them said at that interview? A. 1 don’t remember. S Q. Did you not come to New York trom Jersey on one er more Occasions With the money which you had in your hands, the proceeds of the bonds that had been soldy A. 1 did at one time; ves, sir; 1 brought that money to New York. “ q. Did you bring it on more than oue occasion? A. No, sir; 1 think not. ‘a. When you came here on that occasion did you see Mr. Vanderbilty A. Not waen | brought the money. 1 saw him at different umes, but he never knew that I brought that money, Q When you did see lim did you not converse with lim about the money? A. No, sir; aot that 1 remember. Q Diihe not ask you what had become of tne money? A, 1 don’t remember that he aid, Q. And you Made no statement about ity A. L | "t remeber that be ever talked with me about | the miohey; I don't remember that he did: 1 think he did; 1 told you, Mr. Fieid, 1 tink atone ume he dy say L ought to take the money and deposit it in a trust company; I think he said that once; whether tual was belore or after 1 don’t rememver. with him? A, 1 saw bim several times. Q@ Whatdid you say in answer lo that sugges- tiony A. T told atin L could not do it. Q. What did he then say A. te said lacted very Hisuly 1a going there, and al; This; that Was about 1 tual passed between him and we, COMMUDORE VANDERBILT'S AUSENCE EXPLAINED. Air, Beach said he had expected to reealt Commo- dore’ Vauderbilt, tor the purpose of contradicting aranons made by Mr. Pisk and Mr. Gout: “he had deen suffertug for a week under a rhe aitie aieCUOR, aud sends me Word this morniug, miough be mformed tae last night tat he would eurieavor to be here, that he cannot attend, in con- quence Of his illness; but fam mstructed not to ay this case ou BCCOURL Of Mis absence, and I fore close the proof on the part of tné des fendani.” d said he was through with his testimony. DANGERS OF DANCING. Methodist Ministers on Fashion- able Amusements. Thu; Far Shalt Thou Go and No Further—What the Methodist Episcopal Church Discipline De- mands and the Bishops Recommend— Dancing Must be Done Only to the Glory of God—Terrors of the Theatre - The Tartuffos and Chadbands in Council. ‘The Interest among the Methodist preachers in re- gard to the question of fashionable amusements avd their duty as ministers toward dancing and theatre- going members ran high yesterday after the taste they had had of the debate last week, aud there was consequently a pretty large attendance at the meet- ing yesterday. Tbe Rev, J. F. Bottome read an es- say On the subject, in which he took the ground that we asa people are of a nighly nervous tempera- ment, that our nervous system is kept continually at its utmost tension and that relaxation and amusement are absolutely necessary for our very existence, But our excess of toll finds ita counter- poise only in excess of amusements, We have not enough red days iu our calendar; we have too much work and too little play, And in our close applica- tion to work we leave the providing of our amuse- ments mainly if not wholly to women, We find it easier Lo give them money to get what we want than to lose an hour ov a day to provide something our- selves, And so comes the round of folly. Everywhere excess! excess. WE ARE A SINGULAR PEOPLE. We are an enigma to the people of the Old World and not less so to ourselves. We are rapidly aping the customs of ola Rome and incorporating her gods and her systems with our 6wn. And now what is the duty of tie pulpit in relation to fashionable amusements? What shall we do, or what power bas the ministry to arrest this evil? The pulpit 1s limited to the power and force of moral sen- timent. It cannot legislate agcinst amusements, nor can ministers complain against them, becanse they are fashionable; because in 80 doing they would have to condemn themselves sometimes for tie same. The decay of national life begins with the decay of morals, and no nation can stand long after its moral sentiments and power have been weakenel or broken down. But the pulpit can’t stop dancing nor shut the theatres. It may, however, wake up a moral seutiment in the nation which shall in time avert this danger. Mr, Bottome, quoting from the discipline of tne Methodist Episco- pal Church, opposed the putting on of JEWELS AND COSTLY APPAREL, ambition, pride, avarice and other things displeas- ing to God as well as those diversions and amuse- ments which cannot be taken in the name of the Lord Jesu Where, he asked, 1s the line of demar- MUTION TO DISMI MILAINT. Mr. Beach herenpon woved for a dismissal of the | compiainc. He dtd so, he said, upon the merits, upou the Same grounds which ne had previously | made that wotion, and upon the additional groaud wat itappears from the proof that the puretase of these sures of stock froin Commodore Vandervt Was a portion of a iegmtimate and lawfal mise made on the part of those with" negotiated in the setticment of dountful- of Was conciusive therefore upon the parties in tus action. Mr. Field claimed that the case stood precisely as | it did when the proof was closed on the part of te piainti, He submitted findings on the part of tie | pla.nui, which he asked the Court to settie, { DECISION OF THE JUDGE. The Judge gianced over the findings, and thea proceeded to annonnce lus dectsion as follows:— With the exception of certain porttons of section | Six, finding the facts as proved upon the trial I | suppose would justify most of the findings of facts; | but since the last meeting 1 nave had occasion to | examine the matter very carefully, and have come | to the followimg conciusion:—I thought at that ume, when a mouon was made for @ nonsutt, that, | pruna facie, the plainti aad made outa case against | the defendant to recover the sum of $1,000,000; that, | however, depended upon two questions—tirst, tne | question of Iraud, and second the question of !aw ns to Lie power of the company to compromise and effect a settlement. After having examined very care(uily the complaint and the answer and tne tes- tmony Ihave come to the conclusion, looking at the aliegations in the complaimt on which the right vi the plaintiff to recover agaist the defendant 1s claimed, and find that it is charged that the defend- | | ant obtained stock, bonds and money amounting to some mi Another allegation is that he ob- tained possession of the bonds, stock aud money by artifice, trick or fraud or by the influence with or | control over the board of directors or some of the oili- | cers of the Erie Railway Company; that the tear cre- | ated in the minds of some of the then oilicers of the compaay Jed Luem fo effect this settiement, It is al- leged further iu the complaint thatthe company haa no power to make the agreement therein set forth, | and no power to enter into this compromise atall with | | ons of dollars belonging to the plait, as | | Work, Scheil and with the defeadant; that it was in | fraud of the stockholders of the compaay the mak- | ing of such settlement, and that two of the directors (Gould. and Fisk) ‘opposed it. In regard to | the allegation of fraud, I am_ utterly un- | able to find any, not even the slightest evidence, because it appears from the testimony that ai that time (he present plaintitfs were engaged tu | aseries of expensive, long und protracted litiga- | tons. They were brought by different peopie. some of whom were controlled by the defendant, to re- | cover large sums of money, Which they belteve:t le- gally they had a right to recover and wouid recover. With its legitimate business ab a meeting of the board of directors, duly convened, and by a mnajority | vote thereof—tifteen out of seventeen—Fisk and Gould young m the negative, watch, of course, makes no difference, for tae majority of a board of directors of a corporation wouid have power to bind the minortty. [ find that at a meeting. duiy convened of the directors, that that subject was properly brought beiure them and they directed “this compromise. There was | no fraud Whatever in it, nO undue mifluence, no control exercised; nothing whatever Was done inju- rious to the stockholders, but, on the contrary it was beneficial vo them. There gan be no quesion In vegard to the Erie Railway Company traving the po wer to retire iheir own stock aud to levy their own ponds on their own — property | Whenever they | have the money to du #0. They are especially excepted by the third section ‘of the general Yailroad act from that provision that prevents raut- | ad companies Iro buying or rering their own stock. The very tact that two of the directors— Fisk and Gould—voted m the negative aguiust this setiiement would have no material weight that | Know o!—uo more weight thai if eight out of seven- wen voted the same as these two men, 1h Was no law to prevent the action of te majority being good. On looking at it in that light t hav come to the concluston that this action cannot be maintained. ‘There 1s no fraud proven on the part | dapt or any of bis officers—notung but | What lie had a legitimate aud proper rigut to do, far us the sertiement was concerned. The oiticers of ihe company bad a Mgnt to settle their litigations, It Was their dnty Lo do so, It was a good settieme that would benefit, that has benefited ana, i pr gue, will benetit the shareholders. ‘The plaintiffs at the time this guit was brought were governed and controlled by a new set of of cers, Who tought that m the performance of tux duty tiey should make an effort to recover for the benefit of Use stockboiders this large sum of mone they deemed improperly substracted trom their | ‘They commenced this sult in good faith, — and | dou’t thiuk it would be proper to pumsh them | any more by fining them with costs, because 1 | seems (oO Nave been @ mistake, an honest tnistake on | the part of the piaintiffs, when they commenced it. ‘The compiaint Is therefore dismaissed without cost~, Mk. FIELD ASKS A QUESTION. |] would ask,” inquired ‘Mr. Field, quickly jump- | ing to lis feet, “af the Court thinks 10 Was Lawiul tor | Commodore Vanderbilt to receive 4 inition of dol- | Jars for settling that saitt? 1 inink in compromising,” promptly answered the Judge, “he nad a right 10 receive Buch sui as would compensate him for the troupie he bas taken.” ey . 1except to your Honor’s decision,” lavonically EXRUNT OMNES. - | The wreaths of smiles that geveraily give a be. not show themseives with tueir accustomed pro- Tuston as, throwing on his overcoat with divers | in ope'o! nis pockets aud fis lat on his head and hastily Jett the room, Mr. Beach, who Js the per- sonitication of digutfled gravity, showed in his coun- | venance the proverbial smiling attribntes oi a May | moruing anda busket of chips combined. As tor | ex-Judge Davis, he presented the patatul spectacie of suppresged mirth undergoing penance of exqui- | site tworcure. Mr. Gould suddenly disappeared, and into thin wr, whicn, considering is comparatively | infinitesimal dimensions, Woutd not be so muet: of In less than two minuies (be room Was | ‘The Judge, lawyers, Mr. Drew, the reporters | and Uironging crowd of spectators, who, lke | Shadows had come, like shadows departed. | AN OL ForT 1X MasSaCHUSeTTS.—Among the arucies in the warrant acted on at the town meet 16g iD Marblehead was one m regard to presergt an old fort, built, as stated by J. 4. H. Gregory, aboul 1670, by the early settiers to protect them irom the Indsans. Me from the town, and is Lo be enclosed by a fenee, and preserved @ the only relic of the kind In New Engiapa. | shee | etpal ea | Uimmseif aud It Is situated on the town's land, about | Methodist Churcn cation tw be drawn? ‘Tbe general rules laid it down as doing “what each one knows 18 not for the glory of God,” thus placing members outzide of the dis- | cipline. Take for example, said Mr. Bottome, the mg on of gold or costly apparel. PreAcher in the Methodist Church can stand up against it, or the gcquisition of wealth? What minister could resist taking a fee simple in real estate, bonds or ymortgages or other property? Or, in the matter of book reading, What | who shall decide for me, sald he, what J shall read for the glory of God? Massillon was wont to fiddle | light airs before he went to preach; but had he been @ Methodist he would have violated a rule of the discipline because he fiddled. A member of this body,daucesjn his own iamuy, Gnd, according to the Diselpiine, he can DO If TO THE GLORY OF Gop. Has he violated any of its provisions s No, but he has gone contrary to our notions of its interpreta- | tion. The general rule allowing each Christian mao to be a Jaw unto himself still stands. Don’t de- nounce him as a sinner. He has not violated any law. What he needs most is education up to that higher standard which St. Paul lays down when he says, “lf meat maketh my biother to offend I will eat mo meat while the world — stands, lest 1 make my brother to offend.” The bali, the dance, the theatre and the games condemned by this meeting are opted by Christians. Ministers mst try to sm from such amusements if they mdulge 12 them, and i the. can. "It 1s nut ne deeatogue or the Discipline around with them and threaten. to apply them to every mdulger in amuse- ments. To aniuadvert on particuiar sins irom the | pulpit is but to advertise then. said bi demnavon shall not be needed during your pastorate. We Deal with tem, NICAL _ severe definition, y Of Christian Noliness as a doctrine or too much make # hot we run to the othe preach on it, at declatin against it, And thus every Chistian eye is constantiy turned toward the surlace of tngs. ere aw better way. “The uilddle bull 1s the safest God's people must be a separate peopie. They must have no fellowship Wilh the uniruiutul Works of darkness, but rather re- 5 “ 1 | prove ein. There is no need to tell a sensitive plant Foat company " wishes to get nd of | Or danger: it slrinks lustinctivels. So nelther need these lsigations ang dan Wid to go Pon | You bind ‘a Christian man with laws and penalties erty, when | ond ps | and prohinitions; he is @ law unto bimsef, “My says the Saviour, ‘hear My Voice and they follow Me, but a stranger will they not follow, but will fee from him, for they know not the voice of strangers.” Where the spirit oi the Lord is there 13 liberty—not liberty to do wrong but liberty of action, But i ny liberty works wrong or evil to another L can forego li. Let the munds of the people be educa- ved aad developed 1a the Christian lite and the moral tendencies be directed toward God, and with such experience as they Wil! have tey will uot then need fashionable amusements. Following aiter amuse- ments 1s but the cry Of the heart after rest irom over- | toil, Let it be taught that the LIFE 18 NOT A STATE OF VASSALAGH, dom within springing up into eternal wrest Which the worid cannot give. Let the Church raise up such a five tit the desires for fasn- Jonable amuse s shall be constum Meet fire with fire. Jf the werld puts on its charms let the Chuseh do so too, butiet Ir be the baptism of the Holy Ghost and of jire, and then Whatsoever worketh abomination or makel a ite Will soon disappear. night fait Kottom having Anished the reading of ly, CaS Were ace for Dr, FEKRIS, Who LOOK the floor. He said thal, unfortunately, perhaps, he was of tle positive make up. He had not yet ground of LAK CORNERS OF HIS NATURE, kK because of What uinet fue danger ol tie Methodist Epis- copal Church to-day he considered to be Irom the wside, ano not from tie exterior. It mpush a@ victory over the powers aud, but Lie evil within is the prin- bis gttel, ‘There must he a1 where between the Chureh and the wor Word 1s no louger golug to judge us, said he, our creeds, but by our acts. The Bible recugmizes uarkabie distinction berween the iwo, and ealls Us to come Out from the World and be separated— w be a new cretion, a holy people, He deprecated any effore toward breaking down thts Huc, There is @ j@xness of church discipline ju the city oh WHE mot be admitted ia the country. jd hot admit, tor a moment, Let every iman be a law unto see how many laws there will be Neither the Bivie nor the Methodist Diserpiine ad mits of any such here must be a standard somewhere. Tire * beyond which itis not safe for the Curisiian 40 travel. The man wite goes up close to YHE LINK OF RIGHT AND WRO Will soon pass over. e doctor said tiere, were four classes of nmusements, but he did not desig- nate them, He favored croquet as good and healt! Tal. ré are solve amusements nol wre per xe, but wrong In Wer antecedeuts, their history and inert tendencies, anu itis improper for a Christian Ww use tem. Dancnig, theatre-going, card playing and novel reading are among them. And it wii be found true that the man who — indulge: mone) wil anduige in al. They togetier; so that tie dancer will read novels and the uovel reader will go ww ihe theatre. He did not know autil last Monday that « Methodist minister during'the term ot his ministry dauced and went to theatres. He had heard of a munister going in disguise some time ago, and uiso of another taking a litte boy to Baron's Museum aud leaving the lan among the curlusities while he went into the theatre. Shere are amuxcments why though not wrong Im themselves, are hurtful ¢ tender consciences and should bé avoided. CHURCH FAIRS, RAFFLES, LOTTERIES, EC, come under this bead. The money that we et Wat way, said the doctor, costs ax too much, and he wishea the whole thing could be blotied out of the Church. A great deal ef the dancing in whe has come from the ack ‘dancing master. Paris dances and has danced herself and the French nation ip political deat, = Twenty-five fashionable | too fagrant | fallin this disciphue them u they | for preachers fo carry the | at thestart, sothat a repetitton of your con- | In We either | extreme, and not only do not | he would say the same tnug agam under simac | have been kept open there @uring fhe war, And what is the result of ai fe dencing and theatre- gos iu Pranoe! ita) that every third caild born 10, at Country is Mewitinate. If dancing ts an exer- cise why G0 not gentieren dance with each other? and why mast ladies be always nity Of ope thing he was certain—dancing does not promote religious: Tevivals, nor Can it thrive in the midst of revivals, Now what is the duty of ministers in to those fashionable emusements? Preach inst them kindly, temperately and tn the spirit of charity, and then let the people see that you carry out your theo- ries in practice. There ts far TOO MUCH PROFESSIONAL PREACHING. We preach, said the Doctor, against things that we know the pape induige im, but we never pri- vately practice what we preach nor warn them against their danger. In the place where Brother Schater lives there 1 scarcely a house where liquor fs sold which bas not dancmg in wb also, Can he go and reprove them wile he himseit indulges in the social dance? He (Dr. Ferris) would apply the Discipline first not with the poorest, but with the most fashionable church member, and one such example would be better for any Church than any revival we have had here for ten years. He wondered that the Church had been allowed to go in this wayjunulthe distinction between iiself and ‘the world has been so totally broken down, Rev. Mr. CARTER, @ returned missionary from South America, in a few wo0ds showed how, by his silent influenve and refusal to attend social purties in Rosarto where dancing was indulged in, it entirely disappeared, : * Kev. Mr, SCHAFFER agreed with br. Ferns, and he found the Doctor agreed with him, in the belief | that it ts uow too late to apply the Discipline to the evil complamed of, and that the cure must be effected py kindness and a better education. Rev. CHARYkS E. HARRIS asked Dr. Ferris what Tule or sectiod of the Discipline be would apply to A DANCING CHURCH MEMBER? The Docior replied, General Rules, fee, 31, which Yaguely, ronibite whatever cannot be used to the glory od, . Dr. CurRY, being called out, defended novel read- ing. and, within certain circumscribed timits, many other of the fashionable amusements of the day could be used; but there was danger, as had been sald vy Dr. Ferris, that the Coristian man who upto ihe dividing line between the Caurch and the world will very likely go over to the world. He re from the Biblical history of the uoted a passag jews which declares that “the people sat down | to eat anc drink and rose up to play,”” and remarked | that this portrays a gieat moral degradation of the people. And such must always be the result where | eating, drinking and amusemeut are the chef ends | of hfe, Satety and op ey remip may require that we shall not go as far as the law allow: THERE 18 A “DEAD LINE” AROUND US, and we should keep as far from it, instead of going as near to It, a8 We may. Nine-tepths of our amuse- ments are wrong, and we had better let the one- ; tenth alone, The Doctor also ob ected to Mr, Bot- | tome’s proposition that every man should be a law unto himself, ‘The SECRETARY (Rev. Alexander Mclean) read a i Ee on amusements, adopted by the Board of | Bishops, May 23, 1859, im which they are unquall- fiedly condemned, and ministers are exhorted to ap- ply the “Discipline,” part 1, chapters, section 2, to guilty members. Dr. UURBIN asked if there had ever been a trial | under the “Discipline.” Rev. Mr, BUCKLEY said he was aware of trials and expulsion for this offeace. ‘The hour having passed the meeting adjournea, With the beneaiction by Rev. Dr. Hoidich, NEW YORK CITY. The following record wiil show tie changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours tn com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Phar. macy, HERALD Building, corner of Ann street:— Isi0, 1871. 1870. 1871. . 38 39 ep. M. 44 3906 P. M. 44 40 OPM. 43 4 12 PLM, 41 Average ‘ature yesterday. 41% Average temperature for corresponding Mary Belmont, a middie aged woman, died yester- day In Bellevue Hospital irom severe burns on her breast, back and arms, received on the 23d ultimo, Daniel Kiem, the keeper of the saloon 116 Cedar street, in which a soldier from Governor's Island attempted to poison and rob a comrade on Saturday | Night, states that the men did not get drunk on his premises, An inquest was yesterday held at No. 36 Cherry Styeet, by Coroner Keenan, on the body of Martin J. Curley, a child net two years old, who was fatally sealded by accidentally falling: backwards into a pan of hot water, on Thursday last. Mr. A. T. Stewart has receivea a telegram that the bark Hunter, laden with provisions for the suffering French, arrived on Sunday morning at Havre, Thi vessel, Which was sent at the expense of A. T. Stew- art & Was the first to sail and the first to arrives With help from America for France. | Some sneak thief or thieves, about five o'clock | on Sunday afternoon, gained an entrance to the | dressmaking establishment of Madame Cantrell, on the second floor of the premises No, 222 Sixth ave- nue, While she was temporarily absent, and carried ) Of about $1,500 worth of silks und sain belonging to her customers. No arrests have been made. | en Coroner Young held an tnqnest at tne Morgue yes terday on the body of Patrick Quinn, an Irish laborer, 49 years of age, late of 223 West Twenty-seventh street, who died In Bellevue Hospital. On Saturday | evening, while imtoxicated, he fell at the corner of Seventh avenue and Twenty-eighth atreet, and, striking his head heavily on the pavement, {race | tured his skull. At hall-past five o‘clock yesterday morning, as ofMicer Bohan, of the Twenty-second precinct, was | Patrolling his post, he discovered the dead body of | James Dunn, thirty-three years of age and born in lreland, lying at the bottom of a fight of steps of ue area in front of premises 671 seventh avenue. With the necessary assistance the remains of de- ceased were conveyed to his late resileuce, 141 West Fultieth street. 10 1s thought that deceased, while in- toxicated a didentaily feil down the stairs aad was: killed, Coroner Keeuan will hold an inquest on the bouy to-day. OMcer Henderson, of the Fifteeuth precinct, at an early hour yesterday morning, arrested Walter | Moffatt and James Woodruff at une corner of Broad- | way and Astor place, and, upon searching them in he stauon nouse, found & humber of burglarious implements concealed about their persons. While + they were arraigned before Justice Cox, at Jefferson Market, a journatist connected with a morning paper recognized them as the same party who had picked his pocket of a gold watch, valued at $175. while riding in a Broadway car, about 2 mouth ago, | They were heid for examination, The Central Park Meteoroiogical Department reports for the week ending March 25, 1571, the fol- owing atmospherical condiiions:—Barometer— | Mean, 20,899 inches; maximum at yA. M. March | 20, 30,286 inches; minimum at 4 P. M. March 21, | 29.522 Inches; range, .764 inch. Thermometer— | Mean, 44.1 degrees: ‘maximum at 4 P.M, March 19, 65 d minnnum at 5 P.M. Maret 24, | 35.2 degrees; range, 41.8 degrees. On March 20 rain feil from 8:15 P. M. to12 P. M., to the depth of .36 juch, and op March 21 rain ‘fell from oh om. to | 10:30 P. M., to the depth of 1.97 toh; making the | total amount of water for week. 2.33 mches. The dise | tance traveiled by the wind during the week was | 1,727 muies, A DISGRACE TO YEWARK. The City’s Progress it ‘ivilization—| Is Too Small. The shametnily meagre accommodations for pris- | oners, lodgers and the police force at the sole sta- | tion house of Newark 18 a crying disgrace to the | Common Counell of that city, and has been for years | past. There are sixteen cells only, built to accom- | modate as many persons, but on Saturday night | last, as on many occasions before, the number of | prisoners was so great that every cell was required | to afford room for two persons and then ove or two had to be secured eisewhere, Thus state of affairs compels one of the two prisoners in each cell to LEERY ON THE STONE FLOOR, 4S the solitary peach is scarce large enongh for one. Wh are drunk and quarrelsome the es enacted are disgusting. In the case of Jodgers there are benches for about sixty persons, ie recently over one hundred unfortunates acked into the quarters, Not only were they competied to lie on the senches al floors “spoon fasnion,”” bat In some instances they were | actually compelled to lie partiy ou top of each other, | Itke sardines in @ box. Tae accommodations for the | patrol 30 scandaiously scanty. What 1s | Wanted ly i one or two ‘silb-stations at elegible Pelats, #0 as to relieve the main station. No increase | of accommodation nas taken place for many years, | though the population is continuaily adding and the poilve force is nearly double wnat It was five years ago. Common deceucy and humanity ought to re- commend this matter to the Conner, | © STEAM ON THE CANALS. | Important [mprovement—A New Steam Cai Boat. BUFFALO, March 27, 1871. | Hirém Niles, formerly a well Known merchant of | this city, but now of Chicago, leaves to-night for | Albany to submit the modes of a new steam canal | boat that has been patented by him to the Canal | Board, which meets to-morrow. ‘The new boat has the propelling wheels on the sides, and the bow Is aranged to obviate the objectious stnerto urged to the use of steam on the canals, by overcoming re- sistance and preventing the washing of the oanks. Practical eveimeers and 1 men in Chicago and Buffaio have approved Mr. Niles’ pia Jail NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 187L.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. DISORDERED FRANCE The Surgings of the Revolutionary Spirit in Paris, THE BRAGGARTS OF BELLEVILLE Resolves of the Government to Secure Quietude. MONTMARTRE AND BELLEVILLE. M. Thiers and the Duty of Every True Frenchman. NO PARTY---FRANCE ONLY. Paris, March 13, 1871. The events of the past forty-eight hours prove beyond all doubt that the days of the repubite of Montmartre are waning to extinction, Though no threat has yet been uttered by the government of |. the Fiench republic, preparations are being made which can have but one object—the speedy repres sion of the wanton disturbers «public order who still hold high carnival on the northern heights of ‘this unfortunate city. On Friday GENERAL VINOY inspected the troops that.have now arrived in suf ficient force to complete the garrison of Paris. Though glad enough, no doubt, that he has not to contend against the stalwart veterans of Germany vith the puny, half-slarved lads who seem to make up the bulk of this contingent from the Loire, he is of opinion that @ few good meals and a few hours’ much-needed repose will fit them for the less onexous | task of bringing THE BRAGGARTS OF BELLEVILLE to reason, even if that consummation is not to be attained without recourse to the last potent argu- ment of lead and steel. UNCERTAINTY. The contest so far has gone decidedly in favor of the triends of law and order, for the teint of the champion of communism has been countered so neavily that there 18 not an eye ia Montmartre or wellville that does not sparkle, or an ear twat does not timgie. For the moment ali is blank dismay, aud we wait with some anx- ety to see whether the result will te a fair, stand up fight or a sucden conviction on tne Part of the smitien one that, after all, it will, per- haps, be as well to arrange matters peacefully and back out of an untenable position. culty would be arranged without very serious con- sequences; since then indications have not heen Wanting of a desire to back out and avoid the un- | pleasant consequences Whici a collision would ve sure to entatl, You have been duly informed by will telegram of the offer of the Montmartrian patriots to treat tor the surrender of tue guns, which have been guarded with an astounding display of valor and determination so leng as there was no reason to fear an attack. When the moment had arrived that such a ,contingency became much less remote a@ “cave in’ became inevitable, and a tender was made which will no doubt tead to practical nego- uations. After the repeated expressions of cou- tempt in which the insurgents have indulged for the “beardless boys” who were hurried up to compiete the stipalated Parisian contingent, it would be ob. viously mere malice to suggest that the advent of the struggling regiments of red-breeched little war- riors had anything to do with this pacific overtare. It 1s, however, ratber a singular coincidence that the arrival of the last battalion from Cuanzy’s army and the announcement of a generous desire to give up what they had no shadow of right to retain fol- fowed each other in very close proximity. INTENTIONS OF SHE GOVERNMENT. Some comment has takea place on the fact of the six papers which have been received having re- eelved their coup de grace at the hands of the civil Tgave, in my | last letter, a potent reason why L thought the difl- | government ana not at the suggestion simply o: the | Commander-in-Chief. It is thought to indicate a self-conscious weakness in the goverament—a be- hef that existence ls impossible if perfect Mberty of the press Is permitted. Ido not aliogether share tat opmion. ‘The fact of the matter is, the gover- | ment have set their hearts on stamping out this ridiculous émeute without bioodsie), and, gs a matter of sound policy, they were pertecdy right in removing @ source of irritation which threatened to produce a crisis of sanguinary in- sapily. Though liberty of the press thus far has fared rather worse under the republic than under theempire, 1 believe the members of the govern- ment are folly aware that it is as absurd 43 it would be unnecessary to adopt a policy of severe repres- sion, At any other tue than the present very crit- cal moment in the history Oi this untortunate coun- try the violent, disgraceful and often disxgusiing trash which filled the columns of the defunct jour- nals migat have safely been left to work their owa cure. AGITATION here, as elsewhere, is a plant which languishes un- Jess shaken by the invigorating breeze of repres- sion, and 1t 18 not impossibic that the condemnation to death of Bianqul, Fiourens and their consréres may have some effect in reviving the waning enthu- siasm of Montmartre, not trom any keen love of the condamnés themselves—for your red republicans are the most ungrateful of men—but from sheer love of opposition. If any proof Were wanted of tne slight hold on their affections which 1s gained even by their most cherished idols it would ve supplied by way in which the news of Kochefori’s death has been received. A TOUR IN THE BELLEVILLE AND MONTMARTRE pIS- ‘TRICT. A friend who has just returned from an exciting tour in Belleviile ang Montinartre informs me tat considerable agitation prevailed in that hapoy district all day consequent on ape pression of the six jouraais. ‘the msurrectionary orators have been in great force, counselling imime- diate measures, and & huge red placard has been extensively posted inviting the military to maxo common cause with the insurgents, The poor striplings of the garrison, who loox as if no amount of glory or patriousm would weigh for a mome against the solid advantages of a fair amount food and suftictent rest, huve treated these inv! tions with the most mortitying Mditferenc one more proof has been thus given to the leaders of the revult that THE GAME IS NEARLY UP. Horses were to be furnished to-day by the milita authorities to the Mairie of Monumartre to remove | such of the caunon aud mitrailleuses as have bech Yieded by their whilom guardians to the govern- ment, and it w ill not at all surprise me to find, when that provess is once begun, it will go on aninter- ruptediy, and that the éneule which has kept weak peopie so long in a state or terror will collapse Like a pricked bladder. [I am strengthened in tis notion by A CONVERSATION I have just bad with a reach gentleman of great political experience and of truly liberal aspirations. He relerred to this termination of the difficulty as very probable contingency, and added a keen ex- presston of regret tatrt snould ve so. Though con- scientiously opposed to war and bloodshed, le was of opinion that the trae interests of the country woul be best served by Mae | a few hun- dre‘ls, or, if needs must. even a few thousands of the raManly dregs which popular ferment always brings so prominently to the surta He is the exponent of opinions wich | am glad to flud are held very extensively among reasonable men of all grades of society and which are moreover spread- mug rapidiy. The PROFESSIONAL AGITATORS, who are alone responsible for the continuance of the present chronic state of iusurrection, will attack authority of all kinds, whetoer imperial, monar- ov republican, for it 1s Uheir raison @eire. If, Hore, the experiment of government of the people for the benefit of the peopic is to be fairly carried out, the first condition of success 1 that an effective blow should be struck at this monstrous evil. One can under- stand aud respect the desire of the governmeat to start the republic fairly on iis career, unstamed by civil strife, But as a question of policy [leave to the opinion of those who regret they have not grasped the moral and material advan- bs Which was offered in the forcible repression of communistic rowdyism. i French prosperity is ever Lu recover from the sinning blow it has re- ceived, it can only be by periect internal tran- quillity, and no government can hope or deserve to succeed which does not. put down with the strong hana the nomy, but really contemptibie, minorit to whom social disorder 18 as the breath of th nostrils, DE PALADINES’ DEMAND. General D'Anrelie de Paiadines has demanded the removal of the chefs de bataliion of the Nalional Guard who are in any way impiteated in the present movement, and has fwily concerted with General Vinoy the action which will be promptly taken eventof the public meetings of this evening in which the suppression of the journals and the condemna- Uons to death will be anaparingly used as levers tu efiect an outbreak, A COUNCU, OF THE GOVERNMENT is held every evening, composed of General Vinoy, | | you arean | Stockings, clad Sazanne representing the Minister ef War; M. Pouyer Quertier, MMiutter of Finance; M,. Chopin representing the Prefect of Police; General D’Aurelle de Paladines, commanding the National Guard, and M, Jules Ferry, the Mayor of Parts, ‘The preBence of the four non-members of the Cabinet, representing the gnilitary and civil force and municipal govern- ment, is necessary by the critical ition of aftairs. Tam informed there 18 no lack of heaithy difference of opinion among the members of the Coancil; but a great deal of harmony on the one essential point of dealing vigorously, if the necees- sity arises, with the hostile forces at Montmartre, M. THIERS ts in constant communication with them; and I can. well understanst that it ix solely in deference to his policy of giving the revolutionary — party suficient rope lw bring about the pro- verblal caiastrephe that the majority of the Council have uot Carried out their own more active views, General D'Aurelle is said to be the most active partisan of the Fabian tactics of the veteran siatesipad, and to have had, in con- sequence, many & sharp encounter with General Vinoy, aud the gallaut old admiral would have brount matters to a conciusion long since, in a fashion more im accordance With these professional traditions, if the imfucuce of the doctrine of delay and moral suasion had not been so powerfully ex- erved, REVIEW OF THE PARIS GARRISON. Two days since General Vinoy reviewed the com. pleted garrison of Paris—40,000 men—and alter the inspection summoned the oilicers and addressed them on the situation, He appealed to them as nearly all that remained of the once great French standing army to support. supreme tnilitary author- ity and to perform their duty as soldiers, and wito- out apy reference to their pohiical views. He im~ proved the oceasion also by potnting out hew much of their recent disasters was due t 1ax discipline, and pressed on them ihe rigid performance of their own duties as the one essential condition to enable them to insist on proper discipline and eiliciency 1p their mea. President Thiers—His Opinion of How the Elections Were Carvied Out—The Duty of the Hour—No Party but France—Save Her. The Mémortal of St. Etienne gives the folowing account of a private interview between M, Thiers und tae Deputies of tie Loire, The aged statesman spoke as follows:— Never has av Assembly been more freely elected than the present oue. There have been @ lew attempts by the pretects to exercise a pressure, but the governinent did not have the time and oppor- tunity *@ influence we elections even Uf it had bebn so incined, in the invaded departments the Prussians had no interest to interfere and kept aloof, ‘tue number of voters has been as large as at auy previous election, The resent Assembly does, theretore, truly represent France, The majority is strong and united, and is, for this very reason disposed to be moderate, li 1s necessary that the Assowb!y snould abstain: froin discussiig questions that might cause # division. ‘The question whetuer France should be a monarcny or @ republic ought to be discarded for the present We have beforo us the task of Teassuming our position in Europe, to re- organize our armies and to raise our credit. ‘ro do these things we need good diplomats, goou mulitary men and good tinanciers. lt matters litte to me whether they be republicans or royausts. Let us give proo's of congiLavon. Do not let us attack anybody as long as the Prussians are among us. Li we should be atiacked we shall see What we can do, We have fists; we shall make use of unem. As far as 1 am concerned, gentlemen, I have no more passions; I am past reseotment, IT shoulda like to possess yet these qualities, but I am. too old. I shall devote the lew years tat may be left me on this earth lo the public weilare. I have asked inberty of the empire, aud if it had given what [ de- manded I should have accepted and sustained It. But there is uo merit in saying this now—the empire isa thing of the Let the repubite give ime i to the republic. I have the greatest respect for that branch o: the Kourbons which 1 formerly served, ut hence- lorward | shall serve no party; | shail serve Francel Let us ail remayn united m the interest of France and on the common ground of liberty and the tode- pendence of our unfortunate country. MISCELLASEOUS FOREIGN ITEMS. M. Melehtor de Vogue ts the new French Minister to Constantinople. Mr. Rowland, the present governor of the Bank of France, 1s to be replaced. ‘The Opinion Nationale says: ment for Prussians in France )’? ‘The Prussians had during their stay st Epernay exacted 5,000 botties of champagne. Mile, Brohan, the celebrated French actress, has sworn never to set foot on German soil. ‘The Twenty-third battahon of chusseurs occupied. Mont Valérien after 1 was evacuated by the Prus sians, General Bourvaki 1s at Lyons, He 13 restored to heaith, but his face bears the traces of profound, melancnoly. Nadar bh » following placard on the door of his atele! This door 18 closed to every German subject, workmen or castomers.’? M. Tilers said in me National Assembly, on March 9, taat the preseat war expenses outside of Paris amouuted to over a thousand liljon iranes, The Cafe de VEtulie du Nord, beionging to a Prussian, Who had returned and reopened it after tue end of the War, las been destroyed by the Pans mob, According to the Figaro the French government is negoulaling for tie repurchase of those cnasse- pots which were delivered to the Prussians alter the surrender of Paris, A sanitary committee has been appointed by the Jrench government ior the distuter.uent and proper burial of all we dead bodws of the baite Heide uround Paris aud Versailles, The following six Deputies voted in the Assembly against the dethronement of Napoleon Hl, and his dyuasiy:—Coule, Gavi, Count Murat, Abatvucei, Haenyens and uni a’ Istria. M. Kuss, the Mayor of Strasbourg and Deputy to the Nationat died at Bordeaux on the 3d inst. M. Gambetta pronounced a funeral oravion, ending with (ii s:— ‘Happy M. Kuss, to have the privilege of ug your agonizes country only a8 adead man.” The Count of Paris has narrowly escaped being the victita of @ railway accident. Coming frout Nantes he was ou the train to Kedon, which ran into another train and resulted in a feariul loss of life, Alter aiding in the transportation of the wounded the Bourbon prince coniinued bis journey to Bu Malo, whence he sailed tor Southampton, Ajter the vote on the treaty of peace had been taken in the Naifonal Assembiy at Bordeaux, Gen- eral Chanzy approached M, Thiers and addressed him as follow: r. President, I thank you for your kind words regarding myself, but I must tell you that L have cole to vote for war, because I think there 18 ye! a possibility of success.” “How, General ! you be: war is yet possible ! and when. I cahied upon all nose who believe in the possibility of cartying op the to come forward aud give their reasons im order that we may be convinced— when I just now made Uus last appeal, you did not even rise or say a word, ir,’? replied the Gen- eral, m not a tian of words; lama man of action.” ‘To which M. ‘tiers saad, drily, “Well, it an of action you ought to have kept Le Mans. You woun have very much facuitated the negotiations.” | ‘The following is the account of the scene around the column of July on March 8.—Three sailors mounted the steps mside the column with the tuten- uon of pianting on its sumii’ a tri-colored dag, ou wnich were inscribed the words, “Vive la Repub- lique.” The National Guard allowed them to go tip. 0 more employ- | When they had arrived at the top of the column one of (he sailors alacaoed the Raonal fag to the statue of the “Genius ol Liberty’ and tore away the red flag from it. The enraged Nauonal Guards then ascended with anotier red fiag, seized the sailors and imprisoned them in the cavern of the colnma, ‘Where they had to pass the whole night. Tney were, however, liberated the following morning. The sailors of Brest ieft Paris on the 9th. They marched from the ba:racks to the railway station of Mont- parnasse, headed by an oficer, who bore a black Hag, Wilh the inseripiioa of “Vengeance” in white jeiters, Flogging « Boy in Jersey—inki ment by a Hali-Brother. On Sunday mornmg a boy was found wandering through Willow street, Trenton, without shoes or only in linen pants and cotton slurt, He was taken cliarge of by a humane person, to whom he told a pitiiul story of bad treatment re- cetyed at the hands of his half brother and the lat- ter’s wife. The boy’s back aud arms were covered with bruises. inflicted by @ strap with. which he was Gogged. \csterduy morning the case was investigated at the Oversecr’s office, before Justices street and Crossley, The voy’s story, in brief, and it was fully corroborated, was as follows: was brought from ‘Tinstall, in Staffordshire, England, by amy half brother, Jabez Ball, My name is Charles Grosvenor. They put me to work in the pottery, and 1 have earned from three dollars to four dollar weekly. They fave flogged me very often. My half sister made me take uly sturt Of and she MK me with @ heavy strap. I was flogged last Friday with the a becuuse a hen in her nest had broken her eggs. ney suid I did it, I was on Sunday morning becuase | did not take six cents worth of cream irom the milkman. ‘They made do housework before [ went to the pottery in 4 morning, and after I came home at night they ge me to learn catechism, though I cannot read, and only just kuow my letters, and if 1 did not learn all they set me they fed meon potatoes und salt. My half brotner had my wages. They flogged me very often. 1 wanted to leave, but they would not let me,” ‘The Justice made an order that the half brother should give up the boy. There were several per- sons im coart ready to take him, and he was at length confided to the care of Mra, Dilts, in Feeder street, who undertook to bea mother tohim and dulce Favre, M. Ficard, Admiral Potumage, General | have him educated,